By Barry Lenson We find it reassuring that young Americans are still deciding to become composers. It is more wonderful still that at least one of these younger Americans, Jennifer Higdon, is composing works that […]
Early and late feature heavily in this year’s selection, but in the middle a pair of individual performances stand out. The white-hot dramatic impetus of John Osborn’s account of the title role in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète […]
From Bruce Duffie’s 1990 interview in Chicago with the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who died this week: RS: I must tell you little story. I know Shostakovich personally, himself, because my father a few years […]